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24 | she/her | mostly talking about screenwriting but other things too | not as jaded and bitter as industry guys

[itsjustarin]

ooo i'm writing again >:D a script i havent touched in like 2 months? picking up on a scene where when i feel like I knew where it was supposed to go but since it's been 2 months i kinda forgot... whoops. but it ended up working out. love it when that happens.

[itsjustarin]

i put this in my drafts last night and i kinda don't even know how that would work

[psychoticallytrans]

I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."

It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"

It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.

[wexleresque]

When you think about it, Oppenheimer and Barbie go together perfectly. Oppenheimer is the "father" of the atom bomb, he creates it and sends it out into the world, eventually unable to control the uses and implications of his creation. Meanwhile, Barbie is a creation looking for meaning, who eventually goes beyond the limits of what she was originally imagined for (with her creator's acknowledgement that she has no ability to control Barbie). Both movies are about other things but they are also about the unpredictable nature of creations once they are in the world.

[itsjustarin]

the barbenheimer discourse is so exhausting why are people picking sides??? both movies are good in their own right and on their own merits and we can enjoy both jfc

barbenheimer was supposed to bring us together, not tear us apart 😭😭

[profitelttanous]

what is your favorite and least favorite trope?

That's a good question. Thank you

My favorite trope would have to be a character ominously whistling while casually perusing another character. It's just a really tense, fun character quirk to have! It reminds me of when I used to play tag in the basement of an old church, and how it would get so quiet, you could often scare people who were hiding with a simple hummed tune...

My least favorite would have to be autism represented as negative character quirk/superpower. I feel this representation has ended up giving people a bad impression of me if I tell them my mental condition too soon after I meet them, especially if my work supervisor ends up "doing me a favor" by telling all my co-workers before I've even met them.

(I would love to ask you a question back. I'll do so once I figure out how!)

[itsjustarin]

What are some character archetypes do you love/hate?

to start off with love: i just LOVE cold, calculating misanthropic and self-destructive women. Amy Dunne from Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike's character in I Care A Lot (okay maybe I just like Rosamund Pike as an actress lmao), and at least 3 characters I've written (2 were clear antagonists, one was a little more grey) certainly fall into this. The more bitter and jaded the better. These women are usually very much not the good guys in their stories and are very much not meant to be liked either. They definitely aren't girlfailures since their shittiness is always intentional and you do NOT want to root for them.

now for an archetype i hate? people dump on the manic pixie dream girl a lot but one thing that changed my perspective about them drastically is that the MPDG becomes one because of a guy's unrealistic expectations. he's the one projecting their ideals of perfection onto them. so who I've actually grown to dislike are the dudes in the scenario. easy examples are Joseph Gordon Levitt's character in 500 days of summer and Scott Pilgrim. both are bum ass dudes with very little to offer (which yeah, scott does fight a whole gauntlet of dudes just to be with ramona but why even take on such baggage for someone you don't even know that well) putting up a someone on a pedestal.

now here's a galaxy brain idea: pairing a bum ass dude with the absolute terror woman, which hopefully leads to both of their downfalls. i love a good no happy endings for anyone story.

[itsjustarin]

hey hey writeblr! ive seen a few people do this, so if you want me to send you asks about your WIPs (or anything, really), like or reply! i WILL send you asks (eventually) so be prepared

[itsjustarin]

there have been scant few times that i've seen a movie in the theater twice and this is the first time i bought a ticket to see a movie again while the credits roll.

the oppenheimer hype is real

[animalbody]

seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3

[full-on-sam]

I am so lucky to be on writeblr. You mean there are thousands of stories out there?? And people are writing them??

And they wanna share them with me??

That's just so amazing!! And I am looking forward to buy and read all the books my morboes put out there.

Y'all are wonderful, hope you know that

[stesierra]

What's your favorite scene that you've written in your most recent WIP and why is it your favorite?

I enjoyed it when the main character got eaten by the mutated abomination angler fish bear. I don't get to kill the main character very often and have it work with the narrative. No, I won't tell you which book this was.

[itsjustarin]

maybe it's because the last time i used tumblr on the regular was like 2016 but do people just not go ham anymore customizing their pages? like bro i tried to teach myself html and css to make themes when i was 13 (i wasn't successful in css but i still know html!! because it's criminally easy!!)

the theme i have is incredibly simple but that's because 1) this blog is primarily text based and 2) i wanted it to look like my screenwriting software which is simplistic but like where's the autoplaying music and custom cursors and whatnot?

i mean i guess people primarily use tumblr on the moblie app but i feel like tumblr is one of the last places where you can truly customize the look of your pages and profiles and we need to embrace that yknow

[stesierra]

Those posts people make that list all the words you can use instead of a common word drive me nuts because all those words have incredibly specific meanings and they are not interchangeable and I hate it when people act like you can just slot some other word into a sentence without changing it irrevocably.

[gaynfl-moved]

*chanting quietly* tree law tree law tree law tree law

[itsjustarin]

hey hey writeblr! ive seen a few people do this, so if you want me to send you asks about your WIPs (or anything, really), like or reply! i WILL send you asks (eventually) so be prepared

[itsjustarin]

Do you like six of crows?

(I hate it it's badly written)

I've never read it, tbh my stamina for books over 300 pages and books in a series has evaporated with age. I love a nice succinct story told in a neat lil one and done package. idk why that is but that's how I am.

I was really into the warriors series as a kid and those books were mega long and the series is STILL going so maybe that's why!